Friday, October 18, 2013

Obama's 'Marriage' Lawlessness: Now North Carolina

Although North Carolina citizens amended their state constitution in 2012 to define legal marriage as one man and one woman, this week North Carolina's Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper announced his support for same-sex "marriage" and immediately a county clerk began accepting marriage licenses for homosexuals.

“I was frustrated turning down marriage licenses from upstanding citizens from my community again and again. I had a handful of friends come into my office and request licenses, and we had to deny them specifically because of their sexual orientation. And I just didn’t feel like it was fair anymore.”-- Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County Register of Deeds

Attorney general office spokeswoman Noelle Talley said in a statement “these marriage licenses cannot be issued.”

“This is the law unless the Constitution is changed or the court says otherwise. This very issue is the subject of pending litigation against the State of North Carolina,” Talley said in a written statement.

The Campaign for Southern Equality has been going from county to county, trying to find someone to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples as part of its “We Do” campaign.

[Attorney General Roy Cooper's pro-homosexual] announcement worries social conservative groups that supported the amendment’s passage but aren’t sure that Cooper will robustly defend the state in court. . . .